Harold Goold Pearce was killed in action at Ypres, on July 15th, 1917, whilst serving as Captain in the Royal Engineers. He was 31 years of age.
He was educated at Beaumont College, Windsor, at Camborne School of Mines and at Penzance School of
Mines. He also spent several months, at various intervals, on mines in Cornwall and Devonshire, where he was engaged in timbering, drilling and other practical details of mining work. In 1909 he went to South Africa, and for a year held an appointment as surveyor, sampler and shift boss on one of the mines of the East Rand Proprietary. He then moved northwards to Rhodesia, and for nearly three years was engaged in managing two or three small gold mines in that country.
After a visit of six months to Australia, where he saw many of the principal mining districts of New South Wales and Victoria, he returned to Rhodesia, and was managing the King Edward Mine at Zusaka, Northern Rhodesia, when the war broke out. He joined the Northern Rhodesian Rifles and after some months of active service with them, he came to Europe, obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers and was promoted Captain after a year’s service, in October, 1916.
Mr. Pearce was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1907 and transferred to Associateship in 1915.
Vol. 27, Trans I.M.M., 1917-18, p.402
